by Mitchell Cooley | Dec 28, 2021 | Shoulder, Shoulder Surgeon, Shoulder Treatments, Uncategorized
The InSpace balloon is really the newest thing in orthopedics. It was FDA-approved approximately two months ago for use in the US. It’s not as new as it seems though, because in Europe it’s been used for 10 years, and there’s a really good track record with success....
by Mitchell Cooley | Dec 28, 2021 | Shoulder, Shoulder Surgeon, Shoulder Treatments, Uncategorized
We get a lot of questions about platelet-rich plasma, or PRP therapy. This is a form of regenerative medicine, which is kind of a hot topic in orthopedics these days. Some people pay a significant amount of money for stem cell therapy. There are also some amniotic...
by Mitchell Cooley | Dec 28, 2021 | Shoulder, Shoulder Surgeon, Shoulder Treatments, Uncategorized
There are a lot of causes of shoulder pain. Fortunately, the minority of these causes are surgical. Most of the reasons you may have shoulder pain can be treated without surgery. The first thing we have to do is make a diagnosis. Usually that is made from a physical...
by Mitchell Cooley | Dec 28, 2021 | Shoulder, Shoulder Surgeon, Shoulder Treatments, Uncategorized
What are the post-operative rehab programs that patients go through after surgery? There’s no one recovery time or post-operative regimen for every procedure. Every shoulder surgery we do has a different rehabilitation program and healing time, and there are different...
by Mitchell Cooley | Dec 28, 2021 | Shoulder, Shoulder Surgeon, Shoulder Treatments, Uncategorized
The first is a type of anchor. We use anchors to repair tears in the shoulder. For years, the anchors had either a plastic screw or a metal screw attached to the suture. The first anchor that was invented was metal screw, and then with advances in materials they...
by Mitchell Cooley | Dec 28, 2021 | Shoulder, Shoulder Surgeon, Shoulder Treatments, Uncategorized
For every surgery we consider on a patient, we like to give some percentages on how we think the patient will do. We base that on the medical literature or the data. If we’re looking at a patient with a small rotator cuff tear, we know that they’re probably going to...
